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TIL: Two healthy teenagers injected elemental mercury hoping to turn their bones to metal after seeing X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Fortunately none had any serious repercussion aside of lengthy recovery.

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BpjD TIL Pope Francis is against Catholics partaking in communion if they vote for women’s reproductive rights. Even if that person is a medical professional.
rNXP1 TIL that the seedless bananas that we consume are called Cavendish bananas and they will go extinct in the next decade due to a fungus called Panama disease.
NX5AP TIL that famed playwright Miguel Pinero whose play Short Eyes received six Tony nominations played the drug lord Calderon on Miami Vice